Paintings 2010/11
(Photographs by SLB Photography)
Berkeley Square 1 (Prototype) 2010, marker on post-it notes on board, 122cm x 122cm
Berkeley Square 2 (blue and brown) 2010, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102 cm
Berkeley Square 3: chance invitation, 2010, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102cm
Berkeley Square 4: not too tight not too loose, 2011, oil on canvas, 122cm x 122cm
Berkeley Square 5: YB + R, 2011, oil on canvas, 102cm x 102 cm
Glow Grid: abbiedawn, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 61cm
Twin studies 3: slow down, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 102cm x 102cm
Emergent Square: excluded blue and green, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 102cm x 102cm
Overpainting: pattern interrupt, 2011, acrylic and oil on canvas on acrylic on canvas, 81cm x 81cm
Quadrille in two halves, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 122cm x 122cm
Wakefield Bridge, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 76cm x 76cm
Indian Summer, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 61cm
Early Light, 2011,acrylic on canvas,61cm x 61cm
Fable 4123, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 122cm x 122 cm
Really love your work. They remind me of some of the Bindu paintings of Indo-French artist S.H. Raza. Only you use a lot more color, and in very different ways.
RKB
October 3, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Thank you RKB, I like the Raza connection, I hadn’t seen that before. I agree there are some similarities and flattered by the comparison.
Andy Parkinson
October 3, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Andy,
I like your shapes and colors especially:
Glow Grid: abbiedawn
Twin studies 3: slow down
Quadrille in two halves
thanks for liking my Tango.
Did you see my art on other pages?
Elizabeth
elizabethexploring
October 28, 2011 at 1:42 am
Hi Elizabeth, thanks for commenting, and for being specific about what you liked. I find it helpful to know which of the paintings people respond to favourably. Yes I like your site, both poems and visual art.
Andy Parkinson
October 29, 2011 at 11:03 am
Thank you Andy, and thank you for subscribing to my site!
elizabethexploring
November 10, 2011 at 12:17 am
really nice! I love the one “not too tight not too loose,”
dawn
November 19, 2011 at 6:39 am
Hi Dawn, thank you for your comment about that painting, one of my favourites. I find it very difficult to see abstract paintings near where I live so I attempt to make the paintings that I want to see.
Andy Parkinson
November 20, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Hi Andy, thanks for following my blog. I love your Glow Grid: abbiedawn painting, as well as your other works with pattern and color.
best,
Matthew
matthewdeleon
November 20, 2011 at 4:12 pm
Thank you Matthew, it is helpful to get specific feedback. I am enjoying your blog too.
Andy Parkinson
November 20, 2011 at 10:08 pm
hello Andy and thank you for your interest in art rat cafe (pleasantly surprising to me considering your creative style and theoretical interests). I haven’t yet been able to explore your site in detail but intend to do so and therefor am reciprocating the ‘follow’. I am so impressed with the above hard edge works and am intrigued by the process, especially the idea of using post-it notes as a work-up. Do you describe your working technique anywhere on your site? The closest thing to yours I’ve attempted are my marker on paper mandalas, (Gallery – Drawings) so I have some tiny inkling of the patience and focus it takes – I admire that. I particularly admire that you have not resorted to the computer to create these pieces but have used traditional materials – that’s a lot of taping-off! I always admired Bridget Riley and her ilk for doing the same. Your colour sense is superb and the Op effects really work well, especially in ‘Berkeley Square’ 3 and 5. I am about to attempt some taping-off as part of an oil painting, have only used acrylic to do this before – any tips?
Am looking forward to exploring your site in more depth – I am taking a bit of a break on mine to get some actual painting done!
clinock
December 2, 2011 at 5:53 am
Hi clinock, thanks for commenting. I enjoyed visiting your blog too. Some of your paintings are stripes, we have some common ground there. I must admit that everything I do is fairly easy, I hardly ever use tape and it all seems too simple to need digital means. I have recently used tape on the harder edge squares I have been doing (Wakefield Bridge and Early Light) but it is not something I do often, nor am I likely to do a lot more of them. I like the softer edges too much (even when they are meant to be quite tight). I am fascinated by opticality, though I wouldn’t say that any of what I do could be called ‘Op art’ (it is not precise enough for a start). Having said that, even a hint of a comparison with Bridget Riley is a huge compliment! My conviction is that opticality opens up questions about how we construct the world in which we live, and I find that interesting and urgent, even. Berkeley Square 3 is oils but 5 is acrylic, which I now use in favour of oils because the quick drying time makes it possible for me to work ‘neatly’ without really trying. Oh! and the post-it notes just happened to be there on the table when I wanted to work out the Berkeley Square motif, so I carried on using them (just for that one picture, and then in collaborative work in groups).
Andy Parkinson
December 2, 2011 at 10:23 pm
wonderful! Victor Vasarely, Josef Albers, even Piet Mondrian would applause!
frizztext
December 5, 2011 at 10:40 am
These are fantastic. I look forward to spending more time on your blog and web site Andy.
Thanks for the follow on mine.
Jackie
pointsthruprose
December 6, 2011 at 8:37 am
Thanks Andy for liking my First Impressions at 20 Lines A Day. Going to spend a little time now looking through your blog.
Bill
December 12, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Hi Frizztext, pointsthruprose and Bill, thank you for commenting, hope you enjoy the blog.
Andy Parkinson
December 12, 2011 at 7:59 pm
I’m so glad I found your work via your response on my post. I’d never heard of metamodernism and not only thrilled to hear of it–I can’t wait to explore it via the rest of your posts (and links on the subject). I look forward to exploring your site and learning more about your work.
Jen
December 16, 2011 at 9:24 am
Hi Jen, thanks for your comment, I enjoyed your post on the end of postmodernism and it reminded me that the metamodernists refer to a “generational attempt to surpass postmodernism and a general response to our crisis-ridden moment”. I’m glad I have provoked your interest. An aspect of the metamodern that I am thnking through is the suggestion by Abstraktion.org that it may point a way forward for abstract painting (my main interest), and I hope one day to be ready to post something about that.
Andy Parkinson
December 17, 2011 at 7:04 am
Somehow I missed noticing until now that you have a gallery online! It’s been great seeing more of your work than I’ve seen since I started reading a little over 2 months ago! My favorites are: Berkeley Square 5, Twin studies 3: slow down, Early Light, Quadrille in two halves — is that the same one recently reconfigured? And of course Fable 4123! One question — with Overpainting: pattern interrupt, with the bars, did you use different brushes for each adjoining set to get different textures? I.e. filberts for the smoother set and flat brushes for the texture?
zorgor
January 9, 2012 at 6:12 pm
HI Zorgor and thank you for your comment
easily missed
and i am glad you liked it once you found it
yes quadrille and the reconfigured square are the same pieces.
With Overpainting I do not remember using different brushes for texture, not the kind of thing I would do on purpose. i believe the differences are a result of under/overpainting, sometimes it is a darker colour underneath and sometimes not.
Andy Parkinson
January 10, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Wow, it looked intentional!
zorgor
January 10, 2012 at 10:04 pm
These are super!
Jenny
April 11, 2012 at 11:46 am
Thank you Jenny, you are too kind. Glad you like them.
Andy Parkinson
April 11, 2012 at 5:12 pm
I really like your work and enjoyed browsing your gallery. My favourite is Fable.
searchingtosee
April 19, 2012 at 8:13 am
Thank you searchingtosee and for saying what you like best, good to get specific feedback.
Andy Parkinson
April 19, 2012 at 10:29 am
I’m not sure why I’m drawn to that one in particularly. I think it’s the simplicity of it… but I like the Berkely series too. I imagine the impression is different when you see them ‘in the flesh’
searchingtosee
April 19, 2012 at 11:34 am